Heartbeats (Book 1)

CHAPTER 4

~ VINCE ~

It's so nice to see her like this. Hero really have a good impact on her. I wish she can actually do this without any breakdown. She really made progress while she was locked up. It's just sad that it had to be prison, who made her realize that she can't act out like she used to. Well, she still does it but she held back last night.

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~ WESTON ~

We hang around the bar and I'm drunk. So smashed! I tell Trip to put some music on and he does. I run towards the pole and grab it as I swirl around it. Hero looks at me. I like when he does that. Like he sees me and not the obvious

"Riley!! Come over her!" Riley giggle.

"I'm coming" We spin around that pole together and I laugh. With my heart. It feels so good.

"God, You're such amateurs!" Frankie said. "Yeah weren't strippers or pole dancers. We're just having a good time."

"Get of it and stop embarrassing yourselves. Let me show you how it's done" I'm really starting to lose my temper with this whore! I let go of the pole and walk straight up to her face. Then without hesitation I punch her right in her throat. She falls on her ass. She coughs and gasped for air.

"Weston! Stop it!" Vince yells at me

"Nope!"

"You can't go around and punch people like that. She's a member and you're not!" Is he fucking serious?!

"So she can talk however she likes to me? Disrespect me and Riley?"

"No but you don't have to hit her. You could have killed her with that punch"

"No! If I wanted her to be dead she'd be dead"

"Yeah, cause you're such a badass!?"

"What the fuck is up your ass, Vince?" His face turns red of anger.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah!" His jaw clenched.

"I'm the one who rushed you to the hospital all those times you cut yourself so bad, that you were close to bleeding out. I'm the one who drove to the hospital when you drunk yourself unconscious. All the times you had a nightmare, I was there to wake you up. I've been there for you in every way you needed me to. I was the one who found you down in that basement, raped and beaten half to death" Did he really just told everyone this shit? All of my fears, all of my mistakes?

"Fuck you, Vince! Why won't you just scream out all my faults and tell them about my anxiety? Why I ended up in juvenile and prison? Come on! Spill it!" I scream at him.

"You're just a broken kid"

"And your just and asshole" With that I run outside. I'm leaving. I can't be in the same house as him. He hurt me. More than anyone, he didn't stop. He didn't hold back. Fuck him! I don't need him or anyone else for that matter.

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~ HERO ~

What the fuck?! What's wrong with him?!

"That was so unnecessary, bro. You know how this will end, right? Seth said to Vince

"I don't fucking care anymore! She have to grow up. It's called though love" Really? That sounded more like a lifetime of anger.

"You crossed a line" I tell him. I'm pissed!

"That might be but she needed to hear it"

"If something happens to her, that's on you!" Shit! Seth is really pissed to.

"Yeah! Cause I'm the bad cop. Cause you're to much of a coward to confront her. You like being good cop"

"Of course I do. When she's happy and calm, everything feels safe." I have to find her. She's drunk as fuck and hearing her history, I don't think she should be alone.

"I have to find her" I tell them. Vince turns to me.

"You got in her pants, right?"

"So?"

"Otherwise you wouldn't care and you do best to leave her alone. She will break you if you talk to her now"

"So be it. She can't walk around here at night, drunk as fuck!"

"She can take care of herself" Vince informs me

"Yeah, but she shouldn't have to" I head outside.

"Weston?" I call out. I can't see or hear her. I run out into the street. Where would she go? I run to the bar we were at last night. I look around the place but I can't see her. I head to the restrooms. She isn't there.

Fuck!!